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Sample of authors
Akunin, Boris
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was born in Zestaponi, Georgian USSR. His father was an officer and his mother a teacher. When Chkhartishvili was two years old, the family left Georgia and moved to Moscow where he grew up and attended school, majoring in English. Having become fascinated by Japanese culture...
Literary figures
Randolph Mason
Gender: Male
By using gaps in the legislation, this feared lawyer from New York often gets his clients off the hook – regardless of whether they are innocent or not. This takes place in the first two collections of short stories about him by Melville Davisson Post. In the third, and final, book however, Randolph Mason is on the side of the police, and acts as a detective. He is well built, has brown hair w...